So very very tired.  Lots of short scenes today, all over the map, dodging the rain.  Some jogging in the park, the Royal Exchange, and the Millennium Bridge.

Signal Failure Crew 2 - Weather 1.

Tomorrow green-screen-o-rama drama.  The drama being the scene, not the shoot.

Signal Failure Crew 1 - Weather 1.  So far so good.  We lost some time due to rain (June anyone?), so instead we ran last minute errands.  Wrapped at 20:30 in front of the Royal Exchange in the City.  One of these sort of days which started glass-half-empty and ended up two-full-glasses.  The footage is just fantastic, I'm so pleased!

Nothing else to report other than sheer exhaustion.  My legs ache, my shoulders.  I drop into bed like a logged tree, and crawl out in the morning for breakfast.  Must remember: it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Will try and post an image soon.

No matter how much you prepare (or don't, ha!) the weather just does what it likes.  Is it humbling?  Yeah.  Is it a pain?  Most definitely.  Humblingy painful.

I've spent most of this evening (that's Friday night) looking at footage, making last minute arrangements and phonecalls, and meeting up with my friend Matt.  Bones are aching from carrying equipment, and we were all pretty tired from getting cold, wet and warming up again, on a showery wash-rinse cycle.

Today we shot in and around the City of London, including London Bridge to get Tower Bridge in the background.  At this rate every London landmark will make an appearance in the film at some point.  Most of the other stuff today involved small pick-ups (like a CCTV camera cut-away and a hand on a door handle), but also a number of shots for the opening of the film.

Just before I sign off: there appear to be three types of people on the streets when dealing with a camera on a tripod.  The first don't notice, care or feign disinterest.  The second watch curiously, ask politely what you're doing or tell you everything is private property, including the street, trees and air.  The most incidious, however, walk past and stick their faces into lens or wave their hand past or jump up and down like little children to ruin your shot on their way to an expensive business lunch set-up by some partner in the company.  I've been thinking about it a bit this evening and I can't fathom it.  Are these the boys and girls who used to jump up and down in other people's photographs?  Wouldn't be fantastic if, the next time they present next month's growth estimates to the board, you could just pop your head on the OHP glass and blow a raspberry.

No, that would just be childish.

First day shooting over.  The word that jumped to mind was continuity: meeting old friends, catching up on news, gaining momentum, picking up shots and carrying on.  Some lovely weather in London and am quite sunburned now.  Currently backing up the footage now that the computer is back up and running.  Batteries charging for tomorrow's shoot.  And I should charge mine too, so sleep soon.

But also lack of continuity, to the amusement of all.  A few new costume items which had to be purchased (again) after laundry mishaps, hair continuity, adding to footage shot 8 months ago and unbelievably managing to get exactly the same design take-away coffee paper cup so we could shoot a pickup (no not Starbucks).

All good.  Sleep now.